List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System
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This is a list of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System, which are objects that have a rounded, ellipsoidal shape due to their own gravity (current or past hydrostatic equilibrium).wikipedia
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Solar System
outer Solar Systeminner Solar Systemouter planets
It contains almost 99.9% of all the mass in the Solar System. By the IAU's definition, there are eight planets in the Solar System; four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and four giant planets, which can be divided further into two gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) and two ice giants (Uranus and Neptune).
Of the objects that orbit the Sun directly, the largest are the eight planets, with the remainder being smaller objects, the dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies.









Hydrostatic equilibrium
hydrostatic balanceequilibriumhydrostatic
This is a list of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System, which are objects that have a rounded, ellipsoidal shape due to their own gravity (current or past hydrostatic equilibrium). The 2006 International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines a planet as a body in orbit around the Sun that was large enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium and to have "cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit".
There are a dozen or so confirmed such objects (apart from the Sun), sometimes called planemos, in the Solar System, with others possible.
Small Solar System body
small Solar System bodiessmall bodiesmacroscopic system
This list does not include most small Solar System bodies, but it does include a sample of possible planetary-mass objects whose shape has yet to be accurately determined.
Except for the largest, which are in hydrostatic equilibrium, natural satellites (moons) differ from small Solar System bodies not in size, but in their orbits.
Titan (moon)
TitanSaturn's moon Titanatmosphere
Titan is the sixth gravitationally rounded moon from Saturn.









Clearing the neighbourhood
cleared the neighborhoodcleared its neighborhoodcleared their neighbourhoods
The 2006 International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines a planet as a body in orbit around the Sun that was large enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium and to have "cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit".
Gas giant
gas giantsgiant planetJovian
By the IAU's definition, there are eight planets in the Solar System; four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and four giant planets, which can be divided further into two gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) and two ice giants (Uranus and Neptune).

Terrestrial planet
terrestrial planetsrockyrocky planet
By the IAU's definition, there are eight planets in the Solar System; four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and four giant planets, which can be divided further into two gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) and two ice giants (Uranus and Neptune).





Ice giant
ice giantsice giant planetice giant planets
By the IAU's definition, there are eight planets in the Solar System; four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and four giant planets, which can be divided further into two gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) and two ice giants (Uranus and Neptune).

90377 Sedna
Sednarecently discovered dwarf planet

Ellipsoid
ellipsoidalellipsoidstriaxial
This is a list of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System, which are objects that have a rounded, ellipsoidal shape due to their own gravity (current or past hydrostatic equilibrium).

Dwarf planet
dwarf planetsList of dwarf planetsplanet
Their sizes range from former dwarf planets and moons to the planets and the Sun.




Natural satellite
moonmoonssatellite
Their sizes range from former dwarf planets and moons to the planets and the Sun.






Planet
planetsFormer classification of planetsplanemo
The 2006 International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines a planet as a body in orbit around the Sun that was large enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium and to have "cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit". Their sizes range from former dwarf planets and moons to the planets and the Sun.









Sun
solarSolThe Sun
The 2006 International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines a planet as a body in orbit around the Sun that was large enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium and to have "cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit". Their sizes range from former dwarf planets and moons to the planets and the Sun. The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star.









Galactic Center
Galactic Centregalactic corecenter
The Sun's orbital characteristics are listed in relation to the Galactic Center, while all other objects are listed in order of their distance from the Sun.









G-type main-sequence star
yellow dwarfG-type main sequence starG-type main sequence
The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star.

Mass
inertial massgravitational massweight
It contains almost 99.9% of all the mass in the Solar System.








Volume
volumetriccapacityOrders of magnitude (volume)
